I gave this edition a serious try at work. I installed it as my main desktop development platform on my shiny new multi CPU machine.
It installed fine, but the niggle there is that you cannot configure the installation at all. I wanted a partition on my 2nd drive to be /home but I could not do that.
After usage for a while, ZFS seemed brilliant, very powerful, it could easily add a second drive but not a partition. I had to give up and mount it as a directory after formatting it as UFS.
The environment itself is great, I did "pkg install sunstudioexpress" and 600MB later it was all installed and setup. For work it's much better than Ubuntu/Redhat etc. because of ZFS, DTrace and SunStudio, they are real killer features.
The problem came when I accidentally read that you can update the system via "pkg image-update", it really screwed up the system. I had multiple GRUB boot items, it went from 2 to 10 and some would not boot. Then nothing would link because of missing symbols, I've since read that that could be fixed. Upon trying to follow some proper instructions that describe the image-update isn't fully working yet, I tried to fix everything but ended up with a system that I could not boot.
So for now I had to re-format and load Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit instead.
But I eagerly await the next release so that I can use DTrace and SunStudio natively.
